--- web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2007/10/16 10:15:55 1448 +++ web/trunk/www.linuxsampler.org/news.xml 2010/01/07 20:36:00 2040 @@ -1,5 +1,140 @@ + + The annual report of 2009 + with our financial situation is now online. Happy new year everybody! + + + Better a late than no announcement at all: + +
  • linuxsampler 1.0.0
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  • Fantasia 0.9
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  • qsampler 0.2.2
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  • gigedit 0.2.0
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  • libgig 3.3.0
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  • jlscp 0.8
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  • liblscp 0.5.6
    • +     + This is the first release which allows the sampler to be used as audio + host plugin, namely supporting the standards VST, AU, DSSI and LV2. The + sampler's limits for max. voices & disk streams can now be altered at + runtime by frontends, no need to recompile the sampler anymore. The Mac + version now also supports CoreAudio as audio driver. The Windows version + finally supports the sampler's instruments DB feature as well, however + expect it still to be unstable at this point. Along to the already + existing JACK audio driver, Jack MIDI support has been added in this + release. The sampler allows frontends now basic MIDI control, that is to + monitor incoming MIDI data on MIDI input devices and sampler channels and + to send note-on and note-off MIDI events to sampler channels, which + allows frontends to provide a virtual MIDI keyboard to the user. Besides + these major changes there were countless bugfixes and optimizations. +     + + On the finish line to the upcoming next release of LinuxSampler and + friends, a beta pre-release for the Windows platform is now available + from our + download server. + This is the first Windows version which includes a VST plugin version + of the sampler. The installer includes both, native 64 bit binaries and + 32 bit binaries. The installer detects the system type and installs the + appropriate binaries automatically. + Please follow the ongoing discussion and development on our + web forum + and developers' mailing list + to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated! + + + Cheers Mac users! LinuxSampler is finally available as AudioUnit plugin! + It's still a work in progress, but you might already want to checkout + the experimental AU binary package of LinuxSampler, available from our + download server. + As this is still an early development version, please follow the ongoing + discussion and development on our + web forum + and developers' mailing list + to avoid known problems. Feedback appreciated! + + + We're happy to announce that the first freely available sample library + is now available on our downloads server. Thanks to Mats Helgesson for + giving us the permission to share his "Maestro Concert Grand v2" piano + library with you. You find the download link along with the library's + license informations and a demo track for prelistening on our + instruments site. + + + Added Debian Howto to the documentation + site, describing how to cook Debian packages, optimized for your + specific machine. Get the maximum out of your box! (The + "Benchmark" + chapter might be interesting for users of other systems as well) + + + Due to popular demand we finally launched a forum for this project. The + place to be and share questions, stories and the latest gossip is + bb.linuxsampler.org + + + Hey Mac Users! We hope to give you a good way to start the new year + by announcing that LinuxSampler is now officially + available for OS X as well! You find an installer (disk image) of the + latest release of LinuxSampler and QSampler for OS X on our + downloads site. + Please note: gigedit is not yet available for Mac, we still need to do some + work on this. Same applies to JSampler unfortunately, because the required + Java version 1.6 is not officially available for Mac yet. Have a look + at the OS X HOWTO for an easy start. + + + You tried out the young Windows version of LinuxSampler and encountered + problems? Check out the + Trouble + Shooting Section of the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO. It still + doesn't solve your problem? You can ask for help on our + + Mailing List + . If you found bugs, please report them to our + Bug Tracking System. + + + Another strike: + +
  • linuxsampler 0.5.1
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  • jsampler 0.8a
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  • qsampler 0.2.1
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  • gigedit 0.1.1
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  • libgig 3.2.1
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  • jlscp 0.7a
    • +     + What do you expect from a sampler called LinuxSampler? Exactly: that it + conquers the Windows + world. This is the first official release of our applications for + the Windows platform, providing a convenient all-in-one installer tagged + "20071207". Supported drivers for this new system are so far: MME for + MIDI and ASIO for audio. Needless to say that there still might be + plenty of issues on Windows. Also note that the instruments database + feature is not ported yet. Have a look at the + Windows HOWTO for a smooth start. + Beside this first Windows release, this is merely a bugfix release, i.e. + fixing a serious crash in LinuxSampler. Retrieving instrument names from + .gig files with the frontends is now much faster, so better keep that + option always on in QSampler from now on. With gigedit you can now edit + multiple (dimension) regions simultaniously. JSampler is finally able + to retrieve instrument names of instrument files and even remotely from + another machine, beside minor cosmetics like a total stream count + and volume displayed in dB, as well as couple bug fixes. QSampler gave + Qt3 an official funeral and is finally completely ported to Qt4. A lot + of the QSampler code base has changed due to this. So you still might + encounter bugs. Beside that the device management dialog received couple + of bug fixes. +     + + As you might have noticed, we had issues with our linuxsampler.org DNS + names in the last two days, because it was dependent to a foreign server + out of our control. We just addressed this issue and finally completely + moved the DNS responsibility to our own servers to avoid this happening + again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused! + A new release wave of the LinuxSampler family has arrived: @@ -34,7 +169,7 @@ not by QSampler yet). The new instruments database on sampler side allows you to keep track even of largest instrument library collections. You can order them in categories and search by various criteria (you can find this - feature as "Orchestras" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler). + feature as "Instruments Database" in JSampler, it's not yet supported by QSampler). Loading huge instruments may take a while, that's why the sampler now allows to play an instrument while loading. That way you can i.e. play and hold notes on the keyboard while loading a new instrument on the same @@ -120,7 +255,7 @@ Latest CVS version - of + of libgig now allows to create and modify Gigasampler files ( read announcement). Please let